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Title: Oito escritores

Writer: Michele Mari

Translator: Andrea Santurbano

Dados sobre a tradução

  • Type: Obra Literária
  • Classification: Contos; Tradução
  • Publication year: 2019
  • Publisher: Rafael Copetti Editor, Florianópolis, SC
  • Languages: Português
  • Medium: Impresso
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN: 9788567569505
  • Collection: Instantâneos
  • Number of pages: 41
  • Dimension: 11x15 cm

Dados do(s) original(ais)

  • Original title: Tu, sanguinosa infanzia
  • Partial translation of the work(s)
  • Language(s) of the translated work: Italiano

Source(s)

  • Projeto Dicionário Bibliográfico da Literatura Italiana Traduzida

Reference

MARI, Michele. Oito escritores. Translation from Andrea Santurbano. 1. ed. Florianópolis, SC: Rafael Copetti Editor, 2019.

  • Full name: Joseph Conrad
  • Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad
  • Description from Wikipedia: Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, Polish: [?juz?f t???d?r ?k?nrat k??????fsk?i] (listen); 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language; though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he came to be regarded a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote novels and stories, many in nautical settings, that depict crises of human individuality in the midst of what he saw as an indifferent, inscrutable and amoral world.Conrad is considered a literary impressionist by some and an early modernist by others, though his works also contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters, as in Lord Jim, for example, have influenced numerous authors. Many dramatic films have been adapted from and inspired by his works. Numerous writers and critics have commented that his fictional works, written largely in the first two decades of the 20th century, seem to have anticipated later world events.Writing near the peak of the British Empire, Conrad drew on the national experiences of his native Poland—during nearly all his life, parceled out among three occupying empires—and on his own experiences in the French and British merchant navies, to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated world—including imperialism and colonialism—and that profoundly explore the human psyche. Postcolonial analysis of Conrad's work has stimulated substantial debate; in 1975, author Chinua Achebe published an article denouncing Heart of Darkness as racist and dehumanising, whereas other scholars, including Adam Hochschild and Peter Edgerly Firchow, have rebutted Achebe's view.

  • Full name: Daniel Defoe
  • Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Storm_(Daniel_Defoe)
  • Description from Wikipedia: The Storm (1704) is a work of journalism and science reporting by the English author Daniel Defoe. It has been called the first substantial work of modern journalism, the first detailed account of a hurricane in Britain. It relates the events of a week-long storm that hit London starting on 24 November and reaching its height on the night of 26/27 November 1703 (7/8 December 1703 in the Gregorian Calendar). Known as the Great Storm of 1703, and described by Defoe as "The Greatest, the Longest in Duration, the widest in Extent, of all the Tempests and Storms that History gives any Account of since the Beginning of Time." The book was published by John Nutt in mid-1704. It was not a best seller, and a planned sequel never materialised.Within a week of the storm Defoe placed newspaper ads asking readers to submit personal accounts, of which about sixty were selected and edited by Defoe for the book. This was an innovative method for the time before journalism that relied on first-hand reports was commonplace. Defoe considered the accounts reliable because "most of our Relators have not only given us their Names, and sign'd the Accounts they have sent, but have also given us Leave to hand their Names down to Posterity." The Storm has thus been called the first substantial work of modern journalism.Defoe described the storm as "the tempest that destroyed woods and forests all over England". He wrote: "No pen could describe it, nor tongue express it, nor thought conceive it unless by one in the extremity of it." Coastal towns such as Portsmouth "looked as if the enemy had sackt them and were most miserably torn to pieces". He thought the destruction of the sovereign fleet, in which about one-fifth of the navy was lost, was a punishment for their poor performance against the Catholic armies of France and Spain during the first year of the War of the Spanish Succession."Most People expected the Fall of their Houses," wrote Defoe. Even so, they judged it safer to stay put than to seek new shelter: "Whatever the Danger was within doors, 'twas worse without; the Bricks, Tiles, and Stones, from the Tops of the Houses, flew with such force, and so thick in the Streets, that no one thought fit to venture out, tho' their Houses were near demolish'd within." Some of the first-hand accounts include that of Elizabeth Luck from Tunbridge Wells, who reported hundreds of trees fell down, a church lost its steeple, and two horses perished beneath a smashed stable. One Rev. James King of London told of a chimney that crashed through a house and buried a maid who was thought crushed dead, but then appeared the next morning from the rubble unharmed. Thomas Powell, a shopkeeper in Deal, was so appalled when his neighbours did not help rescue stranded sailors on a sand bar, he paid them five shillings for each rescued sailor; Defoe credited him with saving 200 lives. Defoe recounts another story of the captain of a ship who committed suicide rather than drown, only to have his ship rescued but too late for him.

  • Full name: Jack London
  • Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_London
  • Description from Wikipedia: John Griffith Chaney (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of animal rights, workers’ rights and socialism. London wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam. His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in Alaska and the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay", and "The Heathen".

  • Full name: Herman Melville
  • Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville
  • Description from Wikipedia: Herman Melville (born Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. At the time of his death, Melville was no longer well known to the public, but the 1919 centennial of his birth was the starting point of a Melville revival. Moby-Dick eventually would be considered one of the great American novels. Melville was born in New York City, the third child of a prosperous merchant whose death in 1832 left the family in dire financial straits. He took to sea in 1839 as a common sailor on a merchant ship and then on the whaler Acushnet, but he jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands. Typee, his first book, and its sequel, Omoo (1847), were travel-adventures based on his encounters with the peoples of the islands. Their success gave him the financial security to marry Elizabeth Shaw, the daughter of the Boston jurist Lemuel Shaw. Mardi (1849), a romance-adventure and his first book not based on his own experience, was not well received. Redburn (1849) and White-Jacket (1850), both tales based on his experience as a well-born young man at sea, were given respectable reviews, but did not sell well enough to support his expanding family. Melville's growing literary ambition showed in Moby-Dick (1851), which took nearly a year and a half to write, but it did not find an audience, and critics scorned his psychological novel Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852). From 1853 to 1856, Melville published short fiction in magazines, including "Benito Cereno" and "Bartleby, the Scrivener". In 1857, he traveled to England, toured the Near East, and published his last work of prose, The Confidence-Man (1857). He moved to New York in 1863, eventually taking a position as a United States customs inspector. From that point, Melville focused his creative powers on poetry. Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) was his poetic reflection on the moral questions of the American Civil War. In 1867, his eldest child Malcolm died at home from a self-inflicted gunshot. Melville's metaphysical epic Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land was published in 1876. In 1886, his other son Stanwix died of apparent tuberculosis, and Melville retired. During his last years, he privately published two volumes of poetry, and left one volume unpublished. The novella Billy Budd was left unfinished at his death, but was published posthumously in 1924. Melville died from cardiovascular disease in 1891.

  • Full name: Edgar Allan Poe
  • Wikipedia page: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe
  • Description from Wikipedia: Edgar Allan Poe (nascido Edgar Poe; Boston, em Massachusetts, nos Estados Unidos, 19 de janeiro de 1809 – Baltimore, em Maryland, nos Estados Unidos, 7 de outubro de 1849) foi um autor, poeta, editor e crítico literário estadunidense, integrante do movimento romântico em seu país. Conhecido por suas histórias que envolvem o mistério e o macabro, Poe foi um dos primeiros escritores norte-americanos de contos e é, geralmente, considerado o inventor do gênero ficção policial, também recebendo crédito por sua contribuição ao emergente gênero de ficção científica. Ele foi o primeiro escritor americano conhecido por tentar ganhar a vida através da escrita por si só, resultando em uma vida e carreira financeiramente difíceis.Ele nasceu como Edgar Poe, em Boston, em Massachusetts. Quando jovem, ficou órfão de mãe, a qual morreu pouco depois de seu pai abandonar a família. Poe foi acolhido por Francis Allan e o seu marido John Allan, de Richmond, na Virgínia, mas nunca foi formalmente adotado. Ele frequentou a Universidade da Virgínia por um semestre, passando a maior parte do tempo entre bebidas e mulheres. Nesse período, teve uma séria discussão com seu pai adotivo e fugiu de casa para se alistar nas forças armadas, onde serviu durante dois anos antes de ser dispensado. Depois de falhar como cadete em West Point, deixou a sua família adotiva. Sua carreira começou humildemente com a publicação de uma coleção anônima de poemas, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827). Poe mudou seu foco para a prosa e passou os anos seguintes trabalhando para revistas e jornais, tornando-se conhecido por seu estilo próprio de crítica literária. Seu trabalho obrigou-o a se mudar para diversas cidades, incluindo Baltimore, Filadélfia e Nova Iorque. Em Baltimore, casou-se com Virginia Clemm, sua prima de 13 anos de idade. Em 1845, Poe publicou seu poema The Raven, o qual foi um sucesso instantâneo. Sua esposa morreu de tuberculose dois anos após a publicação. Ele começou a planejar a criação de seu próprio jornal, The Penn (posteriormente renomeado para The Stylus), porém, em 7 de outubro de 1849, aos 40 anos, morreu antes que o jornal pudesse ser produzido. A causa de sua morte é desconhecida e foi, por diversas vezes, atribuída ao álcool, congestão cerebral, cólera, drogas, doenças cardiovasculares, raiva, suicídio, tuberculose, entre outros agentes.Suas obras influenciaram a literatura nos Estados Unidos e ao redor do mundo, bem como em campos especializados, tais como a cosmologia e a criptografia. Poe e seu trabalho aparecem ao longo da cultura popular na literatura, música, filmes e televisão. Várias de suas casas são dedicadas como museus atualmente.

  • Full name: Emilio Salgari
  • Wikipedia page: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilio_Salgari
  • Description from Wikipedia: Emilio Salgari (Verona, 21 de agosto de 1862 — Turim, 25 de abril de 1911) foi um escritor italiano. É um dos 40 autores italianos mais traduzidos, apesar da sua obra ter sido ignorada pela crítica. Publicou 90 romances e, após a sua morte, os seus filhos publicaram 50 apócrifos do género de aventura, normalmente envolvendo o mar e piratas. De entre eles destacam-se as aventuras de Sandokan e o Corsário Negro.

  • Full name: Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson
  • Description from Wikipedia: Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses. Born and educated in Edinburgh, Stevenson suffered from serious bronchial trouble for much of his life, but continued to write prolifically and travel widely in defiance of his poor health. As a young man, he mixed in London literary circles, receiving encouragement from Andrew Lang, Edmund Gosse, Leslie Stephen and W. E. Henley, the last of whom may have provided the model for Long John Silver in Treasure Island. In 1890, he settled in Samoa where, alarmed at increasing European and American influence in the South Sea islands, his writing turned away from romance and adventure fiction toward a darker realism. He died of a stroke in his island home in 1894 at age 44.A celebrity in his lifetime, Stevenson's critical reputation has fluctuated since his death, though today his works are held in general acclaim. In 2018, he was ranked, just behind Charles Dickens, as the 26th-most-translated author in the world.

  • Full name: Júlio Verne
  • Wikipedia page: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Júlio_Verne
  • Description from Wikipedia: Jules Gabriel Verne, conhecido nos países de língua portuguesa como Júlio Verne (Nantes, 8 de fevereiro de 1828 – Amiens, 24 de março de 1905), foi um escritor francês considerado por críticos literários o inventor do gênero de ficção científica, tendo feito predições em seus livros sobre o aparecimento de novos avanços científicos, como os submarinos, as máquinas voadoras e a viagem à Lua. Ele foi o primogênito dos cinco filhos de Pierre Verne, advogado, e Sophie Allote de la Fuÿe, esta de uma família burguesa de Nantes.Até hoje, Júlio Verne é um dos escritores cuja obra foi mais traduzida em toda a história, com traduções em 148 línguas, segundo estatísticas da UNESCO, tendo escrito mais de 100 livros.


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